range

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[edit] English

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[edit] Etymology

From Middle English rengen, from Old French renger (“range, rank, order, array”), from rang (“a rank, row”), from Old High German hring, hrinc, Middle High German rinc (“a ring”).

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range (plural ranges)

  1. Line or series of mountains
  2. A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many hotplates
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:
      Therein an hundred raunges weren pight, / And hundred fornaces all burning bright;
  3. Selection, array. Eg: A range of cars
  4. An area for practicing shooting at targets
  5. An area for military training or equipment testing
  6. The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event
    We could see the ship at a range of five miles.
    One can use the speed of sound to estimate the range of a lightning flash.
  7. Maximum range of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, fuel supply, etc.)
    This missile's range is 500 kilometres.
  8. An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land
  9. (mathematics) The set of values (points) which a function can obtain
  10. (statistics) The length of the smallest interval which contains all the data in a sample; the difference between the largest and smallest observations in the sample
  11. (sports, baseball) The defensive area that a player can cover
    Jones has good range for a big man.
  12. (music) The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
  13. (ecology) The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found
  14. (programming) A sequential list of iterators that are specified by a beginning and ending iterator
    std::for_each calls the given function on each value in the input range.

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  • (values a function can obtain): domain

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  • (values a function can obtain): codomain

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line of mountains
large stove with many hoplates
selection, array
area for practicing shooting
area for military training or equipment testing
distance to the object
maximum reach of capability
area of open, often unfenced, grazing land
  • Arabic: please add this translation if you can
  • Finnish: laidun (fi), laidunmaa (fi)
  • French: please add this translation if you can
  • Italian: prateria (it) f., distesa (it) f.
  • Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
math: set of values of a function
statistics: difference between largest and smallest observation
baseball: defensive area covered by a player
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  • French: please add this translation if you can
  • Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
  • Russian: please add this translation if you can
  • Swahili: masafa (sw)
music
ecology
  • Arabic: please add this translation if you can
  • Finnish: levinneisyysalue (fi)
  • French: please add this translation if you can
programming: sequential list of iterators
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[edit] Verb

range (third-person singular simple present ranges, present participle ranging, simple past and past participle ranged)

  1. (intransitive) To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander. [from 15th c.]
  2. (obsolete, intransitive) To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over. [16th-19th c.]
    • 1603, John Florio, trans. Michel de Montaigne, Essays, I.40:
      The soule is variable in all manner of formes, and rangeth to her selfe, and to her estate, whatsoever it be, the senses of the body, and all other accidents.
  3. (transitive) To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else. [from 16th c.]
    • 1910, Saki, ‘The Bag’, Reginald in Russia:
      In ranging herself as a partisan on the side of Major Pallaby Mrs. Hoopington had been largely influenced by the fact that she had made up her mind to marry him at an early date.
  4. (intransitive) (mathematics, computing; followed by over) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range
    The variable x ranges over all real values from 0 to 10.
  5. (transitive) to classify

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[edit] Etymology

Allegedly coined ex nihilo by Johannes Aavik in the 20th century.

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range

  1. strict

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range

  1. first-person singular present indicative of ranger
  2. third-person singular present indicative of ranger
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of ranger
  4. first-person singular present subjunctive of ranger
  5. second-person singular imperative of ranger

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